Set the precedent

Alasdair Ogilvy, Iping, West Sussex

12:01AM GMT 31 Jan 2003

Sir - The Lost Prince (letter, Jan. 29) did not set a precedent for television drama's understanding of the pheasant shooting season.

In the adaptation of Kingsley Amis's Take a Girl Like You, we saw Hugh Bonneville standing beneath a beech tree in early summer leaf, with a brace of pheasant in one hand and what looked like a .22 rifle in the other.